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Recent Graduates

The Annenberg School for Communication has nearly 300 Ph.D. alumni. Over the last six years, 61% of our alumni have gone on to careers in academia, and of these, 80% are tenure track faculty positions. Another 24% are in for-profit administrative or research positions, and another 9% are working in non-profit research or administrative positions. The following scholars, researchers, and other professionals are some of our recent alumni:

Rosie Eungyuhl Bae, Ph.D. '18

Joshua Becker, Ph.D. '18

Postdoctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Dissertation: "The Network Dynamics of Social Influence in the Wisdom of Crowds"
Advisor: Damon Centola

Lyndsey Beutin, Ph.D. '18

Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College
Dissertation: "Trafficking in Anti-Blackness: The Political Stakes of 'Modern Day Slavery' Discourse in Global Campaigns to End Human Trafficking"
Advisor: John L. Jackson, Jr.

Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin
Dissertation: "The Neural Mechanisms of Conformity Across Socioeconomic Status and Development"
Advisor: Emily Falk

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Dissertation: "Persuasive Technologies in HIV Prevention: A Structural Intervention for African American Young Adults"
Advisor: John B. Jemmott III

Felicity Duncan, Ph.D. ‘15

Editor, BizNews.comDissertation: “Collective Action and Digital Information Communication Technologies: The Search for Explanatory Models of Social Movement Organizations' Propensity to Use Edicts in Developed Democracies”Advisor: Michael X. DelliCarpini

Research Associate, Pew Research Center for the People and the PressDissertation: “Get a Cue Already! How Election Campaigns Matter in Different Informational Environments”Advisor: Michael X. DelliCarpini

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public HealthDissertation: “Sharing in the Context of Tobacco and E-Cigarette Communication: Determinants, Consequences, and Contingent Effects”
Advisor: Robert C. Hornik

Assistant Professor of Communication, Ohio State UniversityDissertation: “Attractability and Virality: The Role of Message Features and Social Influence in Health News Diffusion”Advisor: Joseph N. Cappella

Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Quantitative Social Sciences, Dartmouth College
Dissertation: "Assessing Civic Competence Against the Normative Benchmark of Considered Opinions"
Advisor: Michael Delli Carpini

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California San Francisco Center for Tobacco Control Research and EducationDissertation: "When Similarity Strikes Back: The Positive and Negative Role of Smoker-Audience Similarity in Anti-Smoking Campaign"Advisor: Joseph N. Cappella

Assistant Professor, Temple University School of Media and CommunicationDissertation: “Suffering through the News: How the American News Media Covering Hunger in Africa and at Home”Advisor: Marwan M. Kraidy

Emily LaDue, Ph.D. '18

Adjunct Instructor, Duke University
Dissertation: "Durham's Self-Help and the Financialization of the Bull City: Development Without Displacement? Or Displacement Without Development?"
Advisor: John L. Jackson, Jr.

Assistant Professor, University of ArizonaDissertation: “Development and Persuasion Processing: An Investigation of Children’s Advertising Susceptibility and Understanding”Advisor: Joseph N. Cappella

Corrina Laughlin, Ph.D. '18

Instructor, Loyola Marymount University
Dissertation: "'What God Gave to Us': Digital Habitus and the Shifting Social Imaginary of American Evangelicalism"
Advisor: John L. Jackson, Jr.

Kyung Lee, Ph.D. ‘15

Data and Evaluation Manager, Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board
Dissertation: “The Rise of Brand Journalism: Understanding the Discursive Dimensions of Collectivity in the Age of Convergence”Advisor: Barbie Zelizer

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dissertation: "The Message as a Seed: Predicting the Diffusion of Smoking-Related Discourse from Message Construal Level"
Advisor: Robert C. Hornik

Tim Libert, Ph.D. '18

Special Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Dissertation: "Track the Planet: A Web-Scale Analysis of How Online Behavioral Advertising Violates Social Norms"
Advisor: Victor Pickard

Insights Guru / Manager, Smarty PantsDissertation: “Parental Meditation from Looney Tunes to Angry Birds: Examining how Parents are Dealing with the Content-Specific Issues of Old Media and the Unique Challenges of New Media”Advisor: Joseph N. Cappella

Associate Director for Student Communication, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the ArtsDissertation: “Sell (it) Yourself: Marketing Pleasure in Digital DIY”Advisor: Sharrona Pearl

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Georgia
Dissertation: "Explicating a Mechanism of Descriptive Social Norm Perception Formation: Why Repeated Media Exposure Matters and How Much Must I Have Before I Conform?"
Dissertation Supervisor: Robert C. Hornik

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Penn Graduate School of Education
Dissertation: "Situating the 'Maker Movement': Tracing the Implementation of an Educational Trend Within Public Libraries"
Advisor: Carolyn Marvin

Eleanor Marchant, Ph.D. '18

Elena Maris, Ph.D. '18

Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research New England
Dissertation: "Desperately Seeking the Producer: Audiences, Identity, and the Margins of the Internet"
Dissertation Supervisor: John L. Jackson, Jr.

Assistant Professor of Communication, Northeastern UniversityDissertation: “Toxic? The Nature and Effects of Mothers’ Exposure to Pediatric Environmental Health Information in the Media”Advisor: Robert C. Hornik

Research and Evaluation Officer, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication ProgramsDissertation: “The Evaluation of a Mass Media Campaign to Promote Exclusive Breastfeeding in Vietnam”Advisor: Robert C. Hornik

Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Colorado, BoulderDissertation: “Human Rights Through the Lens: Examining the Institutionalization and Professionalization of Video Activism”Advisor: Barbie Zelizer

Senior Research and Evaluation Executive, UJA-Federation of New YorkDissertation: "Smoking-Related Self-Concepts and Value Expressive Messages: Effects on the Determinants of Smoking Cessation"Advisor: Joseph N. Cappella

Assistant Professor, State University of New York at AlbanyDissertation: “Homegrown Terrorist, Networked Citizen, Double: Identity, Belonging and Citizenship in an Age of Limitless Conflict”Advisor: Barbie Zelizer

Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard University School of Public HealthDissertation: “Cancer-Related Direct-to-Consumer Advertising – A Study of Antecedents, Influence on Patient Information Seeking Behaviors, and Contingent Effects”Advisor: Robert C. Hornik

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Vanderbilt UniversityDissertation: “Mothers’ Cognitions and Structural Life Circumstances as Predictors of Infants’ and Toddlers’ Television and Video Exposure”Advisor: Robert C. Hornik